The plan of raising a fencible corps in the Highlands was first proposed and carried into effect by William Pitt the Elder, (afterwards Earl of Chatham)...

fencible regiments during the Rebellion of 1798 where they fought in some pitched battles. The 3rd Argyllshire Regiment, who like some other fencible...

fencible regiments were raised for local defence and garrison duties and usually under their conditions for enlistment the men of a fencible corps could...

exception of the Royal Manx Fencibles (third corps, 1803–1811) no more fencible regiments were raised for home defence. Several fencible regiments were raised...

Scobie, Ian Hamilton Mackay (1914). An Old Highland Fencible Corps: The history of the Reay Fencible Highland Regiment of Foot, or Mackay's Highlanders...

co-ordinated Sea Fencible units along the English and Irish coasts. From 1804 on they were supported by a network of Martello towers. Popham's Sea Fencible companies...

function for which troops are raised for example the regiments of the Highland Fencible Corps were raised for garrison duties while Scottish line regiments in...

Scobie, Ian Hamilton Mackay (1914). An Old Highland Fencible Corps The History of the Reay Fencible Highland Regiment of Foot, or Mackay's Highlanders...

The Canadian Regiment of Fencible Infantry, commonly known as the Canadian Regiment or the Canadian Fencibles, saw service in Upper and Lower Canada during...

inhabitants consisted of members of the Glengarry Fencibles, a disbanded Catholic unit of the Highland Fencible Corps, and their families. After receiving his...

2023. Scobie, Ian Hamilton Mackay, An old highland fencible corps: the history of the Reay Fencible Highland Regiment of Foot, or Mackay's Highlanders...

1794, Sinclair raised the Rothesay and Caithness Fencibles, the first of the Highland Fencible Corps which could be called to serve in the entirety of...

known as the largest planter of trees in Britain... the annals of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland recording that in 1847, that at that...

for the purposes of local defence. Titled the Newfoundland Regiment of Fencible Infantry, the unit consisted of many veterans of the previous Newfoundland...

in the Channel Islands and fought in the Irish rebellion of 1798. The fencible units raised in Canada would serve under the same terms of enlistment as...

of Fort Cumberland. List of British fencible regiments Nova Scotia Fencibles Loyalist Institute: Royal Fencible Americans, Proposal to Raise a Battalion...

Glengarry – but it is not clear whether early pictures of civilians or Fencible infantry show a true glengarry, capable of being folded flat, or the standard...

January 1797). List of the officers of the several regiments and corps of fencible cavalry and infantry: of the officers of the militia [&c.]. MacLean...

them to be deployed overseas. Sea Fencibles (American) Browne, James (1854), history of the Highlands and of the Highland clans: with an extensive selection...

the Napoleonic Wars. June – the last militia regiments in the Highland Fencible Corps are raised at about this time, but most are disbanded this year...

Reformers Royal Fencible Americans Royal Garrison Battalion (placed on British establishment in 178 Royal Georgia Volunteers Royal Highland Emigrants (placed...

1820). Each of the separate British administrations formed regular and fencible units, and both full-time and part-time militia units, many of which played...

Artillery Corps of Royal Engineers Royal Corps of Signals Infantry 52nd Lowland, 6th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland 51st Highland, 7th Battalion...

The rivalry extended to the Highland Fencible Corps too, with Leith-Hay's brother, James, raising the Aberdeenshire Fencibles in 1795 in direct rivalry...

Reformers Royal Fencible Americans Royal Garrison Battalion (placed on British establishment in 178 Royal Georgia Volunteers Royal Highland Emigrants (placed...

The 72nd Highlanders was a British Army Highland Infantry Regiment of the Line. Raised in 1778, it was originally numbered 78th, before being redesignated...

Malta Fencible Artillery, existed from 1815 until the 1880s when it became the Royal Malta Artillery, and the Royal New Zealand Fencible Corps was formed...

regiment was first formed as the Derbyshire Corps of Fencible Cavalry in 1794, as a regiment of full-time fencible soldiers for home defence. The regiment...

raised from the Sutherland Fencibles by Major-General William Wemyss on behalf of the Countess of Sutherland as the 93rd (Highland) Regiment of Foot on 16...

inflicted heavy casualties. The Highland Brigade suffered the worst casualties, and on the Boer side, the Scandinavian Corps was destroyed. The Boers attained...